[alexamenos]

$30,000,000,000 isn't progress....the deficit will still be something like $1,170,000,000,000. $30b is like couch change compared to what remains....and that's the best we can hope for.

At $100 billion it was like we are heading towards a cliff at 100 miles per hour and the tea party was trying to slow us down to 94....now it's more like 98.

Rand Paul is already climbing on board with raising the debt limit (which isn't much of a limit in the first place). They've already shuttled a rule which would require them to acknowledge the existence of the constitution before passing spending on certain things (not actually obey the constitution, just acknowledge it).

The upside for this congress is that it will be ever so slightly less socialist than the last congress. That's not much of an upside.